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DANIEL AND THE REVELATION-Uriah Smith

~The Response of History to the Revelation~

Chapter 10 – The Proclamation of the Advent
God, has charge of this message; or he may

be introduced for the purpose of representing

the nature of the message, and the source

from which it comes.

There are not a few now living who have in

their own experience met a striking

fulfillment of these verses, in the joy with

which they received the message of Christ’s

immediate second coming, the honey-like

sweetness of the precious truths then brought

out, and the sadness and pain that followed,

when at the appointed time in 1844 the Lord

did not come, but a great disappointment did.

A mistake had been made which apparently

involved the integrity of the little book they

had been eating. What had been so like honey

to their taste, suddenly became like

wormwood and gall. But those who had